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ANDRILL: The advantages of working nights!!!

Submitted by Cristina Millan on October 20, at 2am:

I already said this year’s location was beautiful but at night… there are no words to describe it. All photos below are from different days and different times throughout the night. Pretty soon we will not have this colors anymore, but for now… we have this! And there are no camera tricks!

I took this photo of Mt Discovery (one of the many volcanoes nearby) a few nights ago, around 2 in the morning. It was bitterly cold but we all bundle up and went out for the show:

Mt Erebus at 4:00 am two days ago. Early dawn:

The Wilson Range (photo below by Conrad Rains):

The drill site on a cloudy night...:

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